Why did World War 1 end so quickly after the years of stalemate?

Have a little read: ... Why did World War 1 end so quickly after the years of stalemate? Why did World War 1 end so quickly after the years of stalemate? There are many ideas as to why World War 1 ended so quickly and I shall investigate them all. It may have been just one particular incident which lead to the allied victory or a cumulation of events. To try and gain a better understanding of how the war ended so quickly lets look back to 1918 the year in which one of the most major incidents of war was taking place, the Lundendorff offensive. Lundendorff was the head of the German army and he had just masterminded the surrender of Russia. He was now fixed on making a major breakthrough on Germany's western front against the allies especially since Germany's army had just been reinforced by a total of about 570,000 men returning from Russia. Lundendorff also had a number of specially trained "shock" divisions who were soldiers of the highest quality "masters of using speed to gain a strategic advantage". These "shock" divisions were supposed to be the key if the Germans went on to win the 1st World War. Lundendorff's main attack was to be on the weakest sector of the allies's front, the 47 miles between Arras and La Fere. Two of Lundendorff's armies were to break through the allied trenches and break off right, which was supposed to force the allies back toward the English Channel. Lundendorff was also going to supplement the major attack code-named "Michael" with a number of other minor attacks along the British front. "Michael" was launched on March 21st, 1918, and was assisted by an early morning fog, which hid the advancing German troops from the allied observation posts. The attack took the allies by surprise but it didn't turn out exactly the way Lundendorff had expected, despite achieving a complete breakthrough south of the Somme the main attack was hindered by a considerable amount of allied concentration of strength at Arras. The disheartened Lundendorff, for a whole week kept troops pouring onto Arras in a vain attempt to carry out his original plan instead of exploiting the breakthrough achieved south of the Somme by one of the "distraction" attacks despite the fact that they had advanced more than 40 miles westward. Lundendorff finally came to his senses and converted the main effort into a drive toward Amiens. However by this time the allies had recovered from